Rockets is stacked but aint winning with McHale

[L.Kizzle]

Dwight should be beasting on a player like Gortat. Dwight don't bringing his A game until the play-offs come.

Naw, Gortat is just underrated.

[Magic731]

Scott Brooks received an extension too
had OKC at the top of the West too at some point

Some teams are just too talented

but playoffs exposes their coaching problem.

No team that's ever had a bad coach has ever won the championship.
a better coach will always expose them.

That's because when a coach wins a championship they are automatically considered a good coach. Spo was widely considered a terrible coach before he won. Nobody gave two shits about Carlisle before he won. Doc Rivers was nothing before he won.

[themurph]

Terrible coach with terrible rotation and timeouts. He has no idea at whatsoever...

true....very true....

[themurph]

Once we start posting up Dwight, the offense stagnates to a point that there is no movement. Dwight just cant carry a offense like that. There needs to be a variety of that. Tonight in that disaster period of the 3rd quarter we kept going and going into the play. it was like 6 or 7 plays non stop of pounding it into Dwight which Gortart tottaly bodied him up and resulted in turnovers or misses much like the way Gasol played him.This Is on the coach for not changing the plays


We got back into it by running and playing down hill and finding the corner shooters or like brewer cutting to the bucket.I think McHale has to tell Dwight that move off the ball and play off Harden. We need to get back to running and insert DMO he provides much better low post target plus he hit the three and get the bigs defending out of the paint which gives more room for Harden to attack the basket. With Smith and Dwight they clogged the paint(Wizards) and Harden had no room to attack the basket.

U guys gotta chill...lol...The Rockets haven't lost these games because of Howard...

It's up to McHale to work Howard back into the flow of the game. He's the one that has to make it work between Harden and Dwight.

The funny part is when Howard drops 24 and 17 u don't hear a peep out of folks. The minute the Rockets take an L it's Howard's fault...

This team will only go as far as Mchale takes them. His idea of an offense is letting Harden ISO damn near every play...lol...Because Harden is so good people look the other way.

But in the playoffs that's not going to work...

[chocolatethunder]

U guys gotta chill...lol...The Rockets haven't lost these games because of Howard...

It's up to McHale to work Howard back into the flow of the game. He's the one that has to make it work between Harden and Dwight.

The funny part is when Howard drops 24 and 17 u don't hear a peep out of folks. The minute the Rockets take an L it's Howard's fault...

This team will only go as far as Mchale takes them. His idea of an offense is letting Harden ISO damn near every play...lol...Because Harden is so good people look the other way.

But in the playoffs that's not going to work...

Howard in general but especially post injury Howard needs to just rebound and play d. If they run the offense through him it's awful and so is he.

[La Frescobaldi]

Naw, Gortat is just underrated.

I didn't see the game but I was just thinking about The Polish Hammer..... I would think McHale should be calculating one style for Brook Lopez, Mr. Hollywood Squire.... and another scheme entirely against Gortat who bends iron bars around your head while humming some Polish folk song about using a bucking saw on 500 year old oak trees

[necya]

McHale is not the problem douchebag, you should look at your duo of "stars". you won't do shit with these players. i think Houston will finish 5 or 6 and first round exit. well, no need a crystal ball for that

[ronnymac]

U guys gotta chill...lol...The Rockets haven't lost these games because of Howard...

It's up to McHale to work Howard back into the flow of the game. He's the one that has to make it work between Harden and Dwight.

The funny part is when Howard drops 24 and 17 u don't hear a peep out of folks. The minute the Rockets take an L it's Howard's fault...

This team will only go as far as Mchale takes them. His idea of an offense is letting Harden ISO damn near every play...lol...Because Harden is so good people look the other way.

But in the playoffs that's not going to work...

Nonsense. before this stretch of bad games(lost 4 of the last 6 games) our team was flowing because Howard was playing amazingly well off Harden.They looked great because as soon as Harden attacked, Howard attacked as well and positioned himself where Harden would find him either with the lob or the wrap around.

This team was flowing because the ball was moving and we were going downhill.Anyone can see reverting to non-stop pounding into Howard just slows the ball and the off the ball movement of the team.We need to get back to running it down peoples throat and Harden is the best in the league at it. He either scores/draws the foul or finds the open shooters.

You don't take out your'e best player/playmaker and stagnante the offense which was working earlier. McHale mentioned that we need to start pushing the tempo.Atleast with Dmo isolation potups, he has great footwork and has the ability to pass the ball and find the divers/cutters towards the basket.Dwight will get it together, it is only 30 games and 52 more to go.

Once Smith gets some practise under his belt and learns the plays and developes some cohesion with the team, I think he'll improve.

[ronnymac]

McHale is not the problem douchebag, you should look at your duo of "stars". you won't do shit with these players. i think Houston will finish 5 or 6 and first round exist. well, no need a crystal ball for that

Excuse me? with all these injuries we've had, those stars, or Harden in particular has carried u to the 4th best record in the Western Conference and is the leading MVP candidate averaging 27 points 7 assists 6 boards. Yeah, he cant do anything.

[MiseryCityTexas]

Naw, Gortat is just underrated.

Gortat is a great post defender, but Dwight is an NBA Superstar, and should be franchise superstarring on Gortat.

[KungFuJoe]

Dwight is not a superstar and for all his physical ability he's limited in terms of talent and skills offensively.

A big strong defender can shut him down. Perkins owns his soul.

[chocolatethunder]

Gortat is a great post defender, but Dwight is an NBA Superstar, and should be franchise superstarring on Gortat.

Dwight is not a superstar by any definition of the word. He's not even close.

[L.Kizzle]

Gortat is a great post defender, but Dwight is an NBA Superstar, and should be franchise superstarring on Gortat.

You just said he's a great defender. It would be easy for Gortat to stop someone with mediocre post moves.

[MiseryCityTexas]

^^^Dwight's gonna be a completely different player come play-off time.